Great Britain. 1707 Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales. United Kingdom. Act of Union.

Great Fear. 1789. Peasants refuse to pay taxes, prepare for aristocrats’ attack in rural France.

Great Trek. 1835-7. Boers leave British Cape Colony, found Natal.

Greco, El. 1541-1614. Greek/Spanish painter. Elongated figures. Assumption 1577. Crucifixion. Toledo c1608.

Greco-Turkish War. 1897. Greece fails to annex Crete. 1920-22. Greece loses Thrace. Exchange of minorities.

Greece. c3000BC Minoan(Crete). c1500BC Achaean. 11C Aeolian, Ionian. c1100 Dorian. 683 Athens monarchy. 404 Sparta. 371 Thebes. 338 Macedonia...Alexander. 197BC Rome...Byzantine. 1453 AD Ottoman. 1829 Independent kingdom. 1912 +Crete. 1924 Republic. 1935 Constitutional Monarchy. 1973 Republic. 1981 EEC. 1994 EU.

Greek Civil War. 1944-9. Communist insurrection defeated with British/US help.

Greek Fire. 648. Byzantine secret weapon. Flammable substance that ignited on contact with water invented by Callinicus of Heliopolis.

Greek Independence, War. 1821-29. Greek rebels, plus England, France, Russia defeat Turkey and Egypt. London Treaty. Otto I. Constantinople Treaty, 1832....End of Holy Alliance.

Greek Liberation, War. = Greek Independence, War.

Greek Project. 1782. Abandoned plan of Catherine the Great to conquer Ottoman Empire.

Greeley, Horace. 1811-72. US founder of New Yorker, NY Tribune. Slavery critic. -“Go west, young man!”

Greenbacks. US banknotes issued to support Civil War not backed by gold.

Greenland. 986-1482 Scandinavian. colony. 1721 Denmark. 1979 Home rule.

Gregory VII (Hildebrand), St. 1020-85. Pope 1073-. Condemned lay investiture 1075. Henry IV appoints Anti-Pope Clement III, attacked Rome, 1081-3.

Gregory XI. 1329-78. Pope 1370-. Moved Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.

Gregory of Nyssa, St. 335-95. Father of Greek church.

Gregory of Tours, St. c538-94. French bishop. Wrote History of the Franks.

Gresham, Thomas. 1519-79. English founder of Stock Exchange 1560. Gresham’s Law-“Bad money drives out good” (mistakenly attributed).

Griffiths, D.W. 1875-1948. US filmmaker. First visual effects. Birth of a Nation 1915.

Grimké, Sarah and Angelina. 1792-1873; 1805-79. US feminists, abolitionists.

Gris, Juan. 1887-1927. Spanish Cubist painter. Guitar, Book and Newspaper 1920.

Grolier, Jean. 1479-1565. French collector of 3000 book library.

Group of Seven. 1920-74. Canadian Impressionist painters. MacDonald, Harris, Lismer, Varley, Carmichael, Johnston, Jackson. Thomson 1913.

Guederian, Heinz. 1888-1954. German general. Invented blitzkrieg 1940.

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